I have
recently found some information from the Geneva University,
Sociology Department, stemming from Professor Jean Ziegler and
(his/her) assistant Tegegnes as well as Mr. Denis Bloud
research, on the benefits of a vegetarian diet. This research
parallels the sever impacts - mainly ecological- caused by the
occidents meat over consumerism. Although I do not agree
completely with their conclusions, in favor of an exclusive
vegetarian diet, they have nevertheless contributed precious and
sound data

It is on these
solid bases that the idea of simple common sense, if largely
applied, would enable, by itself to save humanity and regenerate
the planet for our children, as I will be demonstrated
below.

Note : My
heartfelt thanks and congratulations to these individuals who
have had the courage to open a crack in conventional
dogmas wall and by doing this, have found the fundamental
breach of the whole globalisation "system" that we are made to
endure, because if man begins to sustain itself consciously,
masters of the world hold will slowly disappear.

I - The consequences
of the food industry.

Heraclès used
to say : "
Mans health is earths
reflection".

Force is
us to notice that both are mainly compromised well by our way of
feeding us.

Demonstration
:

The
same amount of fossil combustion is required to produce modern
food as to heat houses or drive (automobiles/cars).

Industrial food trade uses as much first matter as needed for
the manufacturing or cars or machines.

This food industry uses 20 times more water than households:
400 liters of water per hour, 24 hours a day, to produce the
food requirements of one individual.

Beef production uses 80 times more water than that of potatoes
or bananas.

Cattle is responsible for more water pollution than all our
combined sewers.

In the US, the animal excrements problem is taking huge
proportions with quotas in the balance. The US meat industry
produces 61 million tons of manure, 130 times the volume of
human waste, or 5 tons for each American. According to the
Environment Protection Agency, swine, cattle and poultry have
contributed to 35,000 miles of polluted rivers through 22
states and contaminated underwater sources in 17.

The micro organism, Pfiesteris nourishes itself of phosphor and
nitrogen contained in manure, highly toxic for humans and
fish.

In 1991, Pfiesteris caused 1 trillion fish to die in the Neuse
river in North Carolina. Since 1995, and equal amount have been
killed by manure leaks in coastal and estuary regions of
Carolina, Maryland rivers and Virginia, emptying into
Chesapeake Bay. These can be directly linked to the 10 million
swine bread in North Carolina and the 620 poultry on Chesapeake
Bays south shore.

In the state of Virginia, the dangerous fecal coliforms
health level is fixed at 200 per 100 milliliter of water. In
1997, some water had a level of up to 424,000 per 100
milliliter.

In the US, 20 million out of 50 million tons of antibiotics
produced annually are give to animals: 16 million tons to
poultry for enhanced growth, 4 million tons are administered to
control disease caused by industrial breading conditions where
animals restrained in confined spaces contract anemia, colds,
diarrhea, pneumonia etc. 20 % of poultry is carrier of
Salmonella and 80% is contaminated by Campylobacter in
slaughter and transformation houses.

Industrial breeding conditions cause animal sickness. A study
demonstrates for example, that 80% of hogs have pneumonia when
slaughtered.

5000 deaths and 76 million of food poisoning are reported each
year in the US.

According to the United Nations, the planets 17 main fishing
zones have attained their limit or are missing and a third of
all fish caught are for cattle feeding.

Food production, transport, preparation and sales absorb about
16.5% of the US energy, where 75% of the food trade is of
industrial origin.

It
has been estimated that 5% of arable surfaces would be enough,
if the US population would adopt a vegetarian diet, and a
biological agriculture, without chemical or artificial
products. Only then can an intense reforesting program be
started.

Epilogue:
"Although cattle
grazing in the West has polluted more water, eroded more
topsoil, killed more fish, displaced more wildlife and
destroyed more vegetation than any other kind of land use, the
American public pays ranchers to do it." - Ted Williams
(Audobon, 1991)

When
environmental destruction and planetary balance is hurt, by what
happens in the Third World, we tend to forget to only think of the
Occident that we consider a natural and practical reservoir, being
destroyed without scrupules:

It is why 50 hectares of tropical forest disappear from the
globe EVERY MINUTE, to produce meet and pay back imaginary
debts, threatening humanitys oxygen provision.

Five meters of tropical forest disappear for every hamburger
meat ball produced.

This is why
(English/British) vegetarians declare that meat is not only
murder, it is suicide!

The carnivorous
ecological disaster does not only concern the Third
World.

"The
transformation of hearth to desert that we witness to happens
as much in Europe as in the US. For the US example we will
quote some facts taken from a November 1989 article of "The
Atlantic", a monthly publication, entitled "Backto Eden", by
Evan Eisenberg.

This article gives
the results of Wes Jackson, genetics specialist, who founded
the "Land Institute" in Arkansas, preaching the abolition of
present day agriculture and a return to the wild
prairies.

Approximately 10 000
years ago the evolutionary process begun a 400 million years
ago to get to the present species, was reversed with the
apparition of a new life form the "farmer". The ploughs
steel has decimated future generationsmore viciously than the
sword. The prairie lives of its interest while the wheat field
lives of its capital.

In the US a third of
the humus has already disappeared, burned by chemical flooding.
In 1948, 7,500 tons of insecticide was needed to leave only 7%
of harvest for insects. In 1988, a mere 40 years later, insect
consummation has double despite 10 times more insecticides
!

All this for
meat, since 88% of all vegetal matter thus obtained is used to
feed swine, cattle and poultry.

If 4 million
American farmers have left the fields since 1938, it is not to
leave place to destructive farming enterprises always more
performing, exporting their methods and chemical products, even
their biotechnologically treated grain exported to the Third
World.

Factor in that
presently we see entire regions without drinking water because of
nitrates and lisiers pollution, as well as encephalitis epidemics
in bovines fed animal detritus.

A
completely new society could get free of the current chaos if the
fundamental choices were turned to a behavior vegetarian, or more
simply more vegetarian.

Examples:

The best per hectare
food production is obtained in orchards.

roads could be paved each side by walnut and chestnut trees: a
double row of these trees on a distance of only 16 kilometers
would equal a 46 hectares surface.

In 1997, Bruno
Schubert had published, in California, an excellent little book
proving how food changes of this type, together with an
economic reform close to the economic thesis of Gesell or of
the distributive economy of Duboin, could transform society
towards a golden age. " The survival of the human race " is
unfortunately lost.

One hundred
people can live on the grain output of five football fields but
only two can with beef meat, the choice between carnivorous or
vegetarian lifestyle is the key to the planetary problem and the
survival of our species.

II - From
meat eating to anthropophagy of the Third World by the
rich.

The following may
surprise but is only the lapidary image of a concrete and
measurable reality:

The Third
World is dying of hunger so that the rich countries can die of
plethorae

All
hygienist or other vegetarian justifications put aside, these mere
facts are enough to enlighten our eyes and hearts:

The cattle of rich
countries eat as much cereals as the Indians and Chinese
combined. It takes an average of 7 kilograms of food produce
directly edible by humans human to obtain one kilogram of
animal derived food. (Save our Bodies. Dr Kousmine
p.215).

Half of the
United States water supply serves to fatten cattle destined to
food processes, 5 times the populations consumption, with
20 times more excrements and 85% loss of humus.

World hunger is erroneous at its base in the sense where the
problem does not take into account an eventual return to
vegetarianism, often traditional in Third World societies. In
famine, to import cattle grain from Ethiopia becomesan indirect
way to take the bread away from the exploited and force them to
extremes, including death.

The Eastern block buys an enormous quantity of grain from the
global market, (52 million tons in 1984 for the USSR) a big
part of which goes to feed their market planned
cattle.

Only
22% of cereals from industrialized occidental countries are use
for human consumption. In developing countries the rate is 87%
according to the FAO ( 1981 data). Switzerland imports each
year 1,4 tons of cereals from which 71% is forproduce destined
cattle.

If only the United States would eat 10% less meat, 60 million
people would not die of hunger ( cited from Dr Christian
Schaller in The Geneva Tribune of November 30 1989)

With the
quantity of cereal which one uses to feed the animals of breeding
in the western countries, one could feed all the population of the
globe. 1 only hectare gives 7 800 000 calories with some bread, 3
millions with some milk but only 121 576 with some meat. In terms
of proteins, it corresponds to 255 , 153 and 13 grams respectively
(Dr Schlemmer).

The unjust
order of the World.

Less than
1% of big Brazilian owners posses 46% of the land while 89% of
little owners only have 18%, the others (34% of land) are middle
owners (9%). The Brazilian meat exportations growth is
superimposed to their "debt" to that of the deforestation of the
Amazonian forest. All this to satisfy the meat demand of the well
to do.

III
- My forest for an hamburger !

For each
kilogram of meat exported, Costa Rica sacrifices two tons and a
half of its thin humus strate. Also, more than a thousand beef
tons are transformed each day in McDonalds across the United
States.

Costa Ricas
territory was forested by 72% in 1950. Today, its forest covers
only 26%, 60,000 hectares being used up each year. It takes one
hectare of artificial prairie one whole year after deforestation
to feed one head of cattle.

After 5 years,
the thin humus layer is used up and it then takes 5 to 7 hectares
for each cattle head. It then only takes 3 to 5 years for the
desert to take over. Fires alight further: during the months of
July and August in 1989, 59 000 devastating fires were light in
Amazonian forest, covering 33000 square kilometers, more than
Belgium (Geneva Tribune, September 1, 1989, p.7)

Every 17
hours an new Mc Donald opens somewhere in the world, giving out
more than 25 million hamburgers per DAY; corresponding to 125
square kilometers of extra desert per day et contributes to the
extinction of irreplaceable animal and vegetal species, since we
hardly know the one hundredth of biochemical proprieties of
plants, some are discovered each day in the savage surfaces
remaining.

The accumulation
of these facts is mind boggling as much by their fundamental
absurdity as by their enormity. But at the basis of this auto
destructive frenzy are Freuds two main precepts: becoming
big and satisfying oneself; or in other macro analytical words,
financial profit and consumerism of merchant values. This brings
us back to individual motivations and social determinants,
political and economical. If, the Third World is able of paying us
20 million dollars in interest, daily, it is because we take a
whole lot of environment from it. The result will be the same for
the world, but only a small portion of human kind will have
profited of its pleasures.

Satellite vue of the Amazonian forest being
burnt.

Note :

(ASP) - The
Amazonian forest has only 20 years life expectancy. It contains
40% of the worlds tropical forest, playing a major role
in the bio diverse balance, of the regional hydrography and of
the earths climate. It also has the highestdestruction
rate; two million hectares per year.

Deforestation
threatens not only vegetation and fauna but also the populations
who live there:

"my view is, the
vegetarian lifestyle, by its physical effects on human
temperament could beneficially influence the future of human
race"

On the other
hand, as we can see, the non vegetarian life style can not only
negatively , but very destructively influence the future of this
human race.

René
Dumont had foreseen the year 2000 as the point of no return and
said that if, until the end of this century vegetarianism had not
become the normal and conscious way of men, it would mean the
Apocalypse. It may well be that unconsciously, this is what
society, confusedly fallen into a world not its own anymore,
wants. But how to find a surhuman dimension lost in an unmemorable
fall if we are unable to harmonize with our environment and fellow
species ?

My point of
view is that it is never too late to do well, because as a
know

saying goes,
today is the first day of the rest of your life.

To you to do
something different !

V - So that the
world changes, the humanity should modify its dietary
customs.

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It takes
ten times more arable land to feed a carnivore than to feed a
vegetarian and we have seen the consequences of where meat
consumption has taken us.

It is therefore
evident, that by a more vegetarian lifestyle, much less animal,
all famine problems would be resolved, as well as those of our
mother earths destruction.

Of more
every citizen of the world should have the absolute right to use a
plot of land to cultivate there himself its own food exempt from
poisons.

Since
Hermès Trismégiste in ancient Egypt, Pythagorean in
Greece and the Latin naturalist Pline the Ancient, up until today,
great minds and thinkers have proned the nutritive and curative
vertues, for body and soul, of a natural vegetarian based diet. It
is true!

But I would not
go as to say:

"If humanity want
the world to change, it has to change its ways of life by
becoming conscious of the spiritual value of vegetarianism.
This credo of the new vegetarianism might seem ambitious et go
well over the simple eating habits. But on second thought, the
choice between life and death, suggests a rigorous dialectic
and an determinant link that was maybe not perceived before:
the vegetarian behavior, by its internal logic of natural life
against merchant anti values, seems like a basis on which other
movements must rest or become superficial. Before bringing new
life rules for a more balance world, one must internalize these
choices within oneself. However, to me, the vegetarian behavior
seems the most sincere attitude, compatible with survival in an
industrialized environment, and giving an ecological
alternative in synch withpresent problems, towards which the
"Green" solutions pale and timid." D.
Bloud

There is no
reason to be so extremist and deter many people from the go,
because, in my mind, if humanity wants to survive, it must adopt,
not a pure and hard vegetarianism, but
more a return to the natural diet of its ancestors before massive
and intensive agriculture.

This diet is easy
to define by observing our dentition ; man is a grain and fruit
eater, a small carnivore and not counting the glacier era, when
there was little choice but to eat almost exclusively game, it is
thus that they sustain themselves, with, let us add a lot of raw
foods.

It is also
how many thaïs still nourish themselves to this day.

The basis of
their diet is perfect:

It
consists essentially of rice, associated to spices and herbs
for the taste, the whole mixed in very few animal proteins
(shellfishes, fish, chicken, pig, in most 30 - 50 gr a day) to
which always add a plate of fresh vegetables and not flavored,
and fruits.

We do need
anything else and it is delicious.

Note
1 :it must be mentioned
that thaïs distinguish very clearly between meat
consumption and that of beef that is very exceptional for them,
since most of them do not eat it, just as Hindus, because of
what is said below, we understandtheir religious beliefs and
taboos towards bovines.

Reducing meat
consumption by 300 to 400 grams per day (or more for Americans) to
only 100 grams per day, would be ideal , like the thaïs, to
30 to 50 grams, would consequently diminish at a minimum to 2/3
and up to a maximum of 90% the breading impact on forests or on
agriculture (usage of pesticides and fertilizer), would put a term
to de forestation in Amazonia and Africa (if linked to a stop of
exotic wood exportations) and would considerably diminish the
social assurances deficits because over consumerism of meat and
sugar is the root cause of all illnesses.

Surfaces
dedicated to the cattle breeding representing in any 35,68 % of
the appeared lands it would as well allow, as a consequence, to
return to the nature approximately 30 % of the global surface.

It is
considerable!

Note 2 :
26% of emerged earth is for cattle grazing and 9.68% for
agricultural surfaces for cattle, representing by themselves
11% in all.

Nota 3 : an false
idea, strongly implanted, opposes itself to diminution of food
consumption, saying this would make one "strong", which is
false! A Taurus only consumes grass! Is it a symbol of strength
or weakness ? The wildbore, omnivore like us, eats mainly wild
forest fruits or grains if it finds any and it is the animal
with an extraordinary and exceptional vitality!

In each country
there is one or many variety of cereals and if you add to that
only fresh and natural products from that country, and you DO NOT
consume any artificial or industrial drink or foods, then the
benefits of such a change would be endless:

You would quickly reach your ideal weight and physical
condition!

You would save a lot of money!

Your energy level would reach a never dreamed level!

Your intellectual and sexual capacities would progress in
all!

You would reduce, almost make disappear your medical
expenses!

You would greatly reduce the ecological destruction of the
planet!

You would seriously de stabilize the economic and social system
imposed by the masters of the world!

You would drastically reduce their financial profits and would
force them to reconvert their activities!

Finally, if you posses a parcel of earth and clean water, you
could ( provided you us elbow grease) easily become
free.

Ô
paradox ! Adopt this food allowing to produce to the nature, thus to
the trees, to the plants and to the animals, among which the game,
immense surfaces, would allow to increase also the variety of our
resources in natural and free food, and to improve the health of all
!

Whereas
to continue to eat some meat would amount to commit suicide to you
now, you and your children, but also collectively.

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